Looking for a few Great Web and Flex Developers!

We have a couple of different IT opportunities that I wanted to make folks aware of. The IT market in Denver is relatively small and has tightened up considerably from just a couple of months ago. Candidates in IT, and increasingly in other career areas as well, are finding more opportunities than have been available in the last several years. There are a lot of great IT shops in Denver and we think we are among those that can offer a lot to folks interested in exploring opportunities. We are currently looking for some great Web Developers and Flex Developers to join our IT team. 

One of the advantages Pinnacol has is that our corporate headquarters are based here in Denver. What that means is that we have all the corporate support resources, including our IT shop, located at our Lowry offices. This allows all the support functions, including our IT staff to interact and collaborate very closely with the business users who depend on them. Pinnacol has only about 600 employees so over time people really do get to know each other and develop close working relationships. More than one out of every 10 Pinnacol employees works in IT which highlights our commitment to, and recognition of, the changes taking place every day in technology.

Our IT staff work in an Agile environment and we use and adopt software that makes good business sense. IT folks know that their world is in a constant state of change - the hot tools of today will likely not be the same they will use tommorrow. As the old adage goes, if you are not moving ahead you are falling behind, and our IT staff recognizes that Agile is not just a tool but a philosophy.

In the following video Dave Hoffman, our Associate Vice President of Application Services, shares some insights about the Web Developer role and also gives his thoughts on where IT at Pinnacol is heading, and what it's like to work in our IT shop:  




Pinnacol Assurance is looking for a talented web developer with a passion for creating great products to help our customers do what they love. Our current technology stack includes HTML5, jQuery, Ruby (some on Rails, some not), Oracle, Passenger, Apache and nginx, and even a little bit of C.

As I mentioned, our IT team works in an Agile environment with an emphasis on fast turnaround to get customers what they need quickly. On the Web Developer side we're looking for "full-stack" developers who can be a jack of all trades and can quickly learn a new technology they are not readily familiar with.

Some of the must have skills we are looking for include:

• HTML
• CSS
• JavaScript
• jQuery
• SQL
• Unix
• Proficiency in one or more Object Oriented languages (Ruby preferred but will consider PHP, java, etc.)

Other skills it would be nice to have include:

• Ruby
• Rails
• UI/UX design skills
• HTML5
• Sass
• CoffeeScript
• jQueryUI
• C/C++
• Oracle
• Phusion Passenger
• Apache or nginx
• git/github

Our Flex Developers develop and maintain multiple-tier application programs, with a heavy emphasis on advanced sophistication of the user interface and user-facing application logic, using technologies such as Adobe Flex, HTML, Javascript, CSS, and XML. They collaborate on assignments with the Product Team while working under the guidance of the Application Resource Manager or Application Technology Manager to meet our Customer needs.
 
Some of the things we are looking for include:

• The ability to utilize FlashBuilder and Flex SDK to design and build graphical user interfaces for web applications used by internal business users.

• Able to work in a team setting utilizing agile development processes to produce software products.

• Experience using modular and object oriented approaches to building Flex applications. (sub-applications, custom components, custom skinning)

• Experience using test driven development methodologies to produce software applications which support automated unit and regression testing. (FlexUnit, continuous integration)

• Experience using the various forms of Flex frameworks as needed to standardize and organize code in large projects. (Swiz, Robotlegs)

If you are interested in exploring further these opportunities with Pinnacol Assurance we invite you to complete an application via our company website.